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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned again Friday that the virus was spreading faster than response efforts can catch up.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Replimune’s drug, marketed as Tudriqev, is a genetically modified virus that doctors inject directly into tumors, where it is designed to kill cancer cells and trigger an immune response against tumors elsewhere in the body.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Vaccines, masking, improved indoor air quality and acquired immunity have all kept the virus at bay so that morgue trucks no longer fill the streets.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

For more than 70 years, most annual flu vaccines have come from a manufacturing process that incubates the virus in chicken eggs.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

As the era of cheap, abundant energy drew to a close, poverty and unrest began to spread like a virus.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

It is possible that one day, he said, someone will use a similar approach to make viral proteins or viruses themselves that infect people and evade vaccine protection or natural immune responses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

If the bacterial cells died, their viruses were working.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

For example, they said new viruses with the potential to cause disease "should not be pursued".

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Genetic family tree studies show that such transfers have occurred, but scientists have generally assumed that jumping genes traveled as passengers inside plasmids or viruses.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

Viroids are composed exclusively of nucleic acid, unlike the viruses, which also have a protein coat.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan